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Iberia Rises
Iberia's pre-tax profits grew by close to 25%over the first nine months of this year to reach Ptas20.7 billion ($138 million) and president Xavier de Irala predicts a pre-tax return of around Ptas8 billion for the full year. Despite the rise, Iberia saw a slight drop at operating level as ...
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Free flight-who pays?
Billed as the "Path to Free Flight", the US Federal Aviation Administration's Flight 2000 programme could prove a rocky road for planners of this ambitious demonstration of the future US air-traffic-management system. While agreeing that a large-scale rehearsal of the Free Flight concept is a good idea, lawmakers, operators and ...
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Unions side with Boeing in Sabena order battle
Unions at Sabena have intervened in the fight between Boeing and Airbus to secure a contract to replace the carrier's Boeing 737-200 with a threat of industrial action if the airline decides in favour of the Airbus A319. The Belgian flag carrier is due to make a decision ...
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Finnair opens talks with BA on alliance
Finnair has opened alliance talks with British Airways to compete with the Star Alliance partners SAS and Lufthansa in Scandinavia. The Finnish carrier says that no shareholding is on the table. The talks will cover a range of options stretching from linked frequent flyer programmes and code-sharing to joint marketing ...
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North Korea plans to upgrade its air-traffic-control system
The North Korean Civil Aviation Administration is scheduled to complete an initial upgrade of air-traffic-control equipment by the end of the year, in readiness for the start of international flight trials through the Pyongyang Flight Information Region (FIR) in late February. North Korea is modernising communications equipment at ...
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Japanese airlines cut back on domestic routes as rules ease
Japan's three largest airlines have started to cut back their operations on domestic routes, following a decision by the Government earlier this year to ease regulations dictating where carriers can fly. Japan Airlines and Japan Air System began their cutbacks this month, with the former suspending flights between ...
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Airbus to rule at German Britannia?
Britannia Airways is considering an all Airbus fleet to expand its new German charter market service. The carrier, which launches its operation with a flight from Berlin-Schonefeld on 3 November using a Boeing 767-300ER, could decide to switch to the European built aircraft by 1999. The foray into ...
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City Bird aims to raise new cash from public listing
City Bird, Belgium's low-cost start-up airline, aims to raise $40 million from a public listing to help fund ambitious expansion plans designed to make it the "major long-haul operator" from its base at Brussels Airport. The airline began operations in March with a Boeing MD-11, targeting long-haul scheduled ...
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Free Flight AID
Airline-owned communications company ARINC, and MITRE, the quasi-government think-tank, have created SkySource, a new company aiming at reducing operating costs, decreasing flight delays and increasing safety by providing a single, integrated source of aeronautical information for airspace users and the US Federal Aviation Administration. Source: Flight International
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VLM and Air UK agree codesharing deal
VlM and Air UK have agreed to codeshare on flights between Rotterdam, Netherlands and London City Airport from 27 October. The flights, which will be operated by VLM Fokker 50s, bring to an end a battle between the two airlines. At one time, it looked as though it ...
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S Africa hunts for investor to assist airport privatisation
South Africa is continuing its privatisation programme with the search for an international airport investor to kick off the sale of the country's state-owned airport-management company. Minister of Transport Mac Maharaj says that plans have been agreed for the sale of an initial 49%of the Airports Company South ...
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Airbus aims at A320 production boost
Airbus Industrie chief operating officer Volker Von Tein has raised the possibility of an increase in the production rate of the A320 family from the planned 18 per month - but only if the consortium secures an order for 120 aircraft from US Airways. The current rate of ...
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Volga-Dnepr leases Tu-204Cs
Volga-Dnepr is to take two Tupolev Tu-204C-120 freighters equipped with Rolls-Royce RB211-535E4B engines on lease in a deal about to be signed with the leasing company Sirocco Aerospace International. The Russian cargo airline is also spending nearly $30 million upgrading its Antonov An-124 fleet. Volga-Dnepr president Alexei Isaikin ...
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Air China steps towards 1998 listing
Air China has begun the first steps towards a public flotation in 1998, becoming the last of the mainland China's big three carriers to go for a listing following successful launches by China Southern and China Eastern in New York and Hong Kong. According to China's state-run media, ...
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Pan Am approved
Pan American World Airways shareholders voted overwhelmingly to approve the company's merger with Carnival Air Lines. In the deal, announced in March, Pan Am will acquire Carnival's fleet of 21 aircraft, including Boeing 727s and 737s. The transaction matches Pan Am's small intercontinental service with Carnival's much larger leisure network. ...
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Netherlands unbends on Schiphol noise
The Netherlands Government has reached a last-minute compromise which will allow Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport to breach its strict noise regime, which was threatening to cause chaos in operations in the final three months of the year. The airport says that it will still have to rein in its growth in ...
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KAL steps up plans for new narrowbody
Korean Air Lines (KAL) is accelerating plans to phase out its entire fleet of Fokker 100s and Boeing MD-82/83s with the purchase of up to 40 replacement narrowbody aircraft. Industry sources say that KAL's evaluation has intensified in recent weeks and that a type selection is expected by ...
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Prestwick incentive
Glasgow Prestwick International Airport in Scotland is trying to encourage carriers to launch transatlantic services from the airport by offering to pay them some £1 million ($1.6 million) a year if they make a five-year commitment. Source: Flight International
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Fokker responds to reliability protest
A joint protest by several European operators of Fokker aircraft expressing grievances over poor reliability has forced Fokker Services to introduce support measures. In a letter to Jan van der Giessen, the Dutch company's technical vice-president, the group of airlines - the "Fokker 70/100 Customer Community" - details ...
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Ministers turn down EC open-skies request
Europe's transport ministers have turned down a request from the European Commission (EC) to broaden the remit of its open-skies talks with the USA to include negotiations on traffic rights. EC transport commissioner Neil Kinnock hopes to raise the issue again at the next meeting, in December. Kinnock ...